As Long as You're Mine Part 1

Chapter 1

Tachel sat at her window looking out upon the land that she called home. Healin, not the prettiest of places but it was were she worked. She had found a job with Rufus Shinra as one of his protectors only she wasn't a Turk and apparently she was still in training. She had learned from her father how to fight with a sword at an early age. Then at age fifteen she learned how to use a gun. She was well mastered in both of these, but according to Shinra she still needed more practice. "Tachel I need you to run some errands for me. Can you do that?" Shinra said as he entered her Tachel's room. "Yes I can." Tachel said in a sad voice as she stood up. "Take your sword you might need it." Shinra said looking at Tachel's clothes. A sleeveless shirt with two little strips of a deep blue material coming out of the sides of the shoulders. She wore a skirt that came to her knees and had a slit all the way up either leg. So, to go under this, she wore form fitting shorts. At the bottom of the skirt was the same little strip of deep blue material. The deep blue was the perfect color to set off for her pale blue eyes. In fact if Shinra were to have described her, he would have said that she was the fairest girl for miles around. She had fair skin that glowed in the sun and her eyes lit up with laughter at every joke Reno told, bad of not. Her shoulder length hair glowed an unnatural blue in the moonlight. And when you walked past her when she was training she fought as though there she would not live to see another day. Whoever her mother is she must be very beautiful. Shinra thought to himself. "My mother is dead." Tachel said. Shinra came back from his thoughts to see Tachel at her bed putting on her sneakers, her preferred choice of shoes. How could she have known what he was thinking? he hadn't said it out loud. "How did you know what I was thinking?"Shinra asked calmly. "If you really must know, sir, my mother was an elf, she was killed by Sephiroth, I have the gift of foresight and of reading peoples minds, when needed of course. But I don't tell this to just anyone, I tell this to you because you are my employer, that is all. Now, the list?" Tachel finished holding out her hand to take the paper from Shinra. He handed her the list of goods that she needed to get and Tachel left the room, leaving her very stunned employer alone.

Tachel manned her motor cycle, she figured that she would take the short way to town and back, that way she could be back in time for training. She stuck her sword in its sheath that was just below her neck., then turned on her motor cycle and was off down the road.

Kadaj and his gang came to a stop in front of the building that, according to their sources, was where Rufus Shinra was. They climbed the steps to the door where they were greeted by Reno and Rude, Shinra's henchmen. "Now, we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way." Kadaj said cooly "Hmm, Rude, what do you think we should do?" Reno asked turning to his companion. "I say we go hard." Rude answered "Then hard it is!!!" Reno said going at Kadaj with his rod, but he was stopped in mid swing by a powerful electrical surge through his body, he fell to the floor with a loud thud. "Alright, that's it" Rude said as he turned on Kadaj "You're gonna get it." He continued as he ran towards Kadaj, but he was also stopped right before he could swing with a powerful electrical surge through his body, rude then fell to the floor with a thud. "Turn up the power and shock them once more, just to be sure they don't interfere." Kadaj said turning on Mr. Shinra. "Now, you're going to tell me every thing we need to know, got it?" Kadaj Said, Mr Shina nodded as his reply. "Good. Now you must know I hate liars so I highly suggest that you tell me the truth, or you'll end up like your little minions over here." Kadaj said as he stepped over the now passed out Reno and Rude. "So you're going to tell me where 'mother' is." Kadaj said, he was now in front of Mr. Shinra who was looking rather clam. "I swear I Couldn't tell you where she is. When we went to the cave we found what we were looking for, but, in our rush, we dropped it from the helicopter." Shinra said. Kadaj looked as though he could kill. "Swear on these then." Kadaj said as he pulled out two cards, Mr. Shinra recognized them as some of his employees. There was blood splattered on the cards Mr. Shinra looked up at Kadaj sadly. "Why did you do this? Why do you want Jenova?" Mr. Shinra asked, almost yelling. "Why sir don't you know?" Kadaj said. He kneeled in front of Shinra, it was then that Mr. Shinra saw Sephiroth in Kadaj's face and knew that there would be trouble.